Posted in Guitar Lessons, Songs on May 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
JustAcoustic.com has created 20 free acoustic guitar lessons for various songs spanning many years. These lessons include tablature and sound, and in some cases video. Skill levels range from Easy to Advanced. See how many of them you can learn. 20 Acoustic “Betcha Can’t Play This” Songs ‘Wild World’ by Cat Stevens ‘Stay’ by Dave [...]
Posted in Songs, Videos on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Amazing Grace is a popular Christian hymnal that many guitarists try to learn. Guitar MX takes a look at this song, and some of the ways it’s played on the guitar: The lyrics were written in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. Newton was a marginal Christian and slave ship captain who had a religious experience [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Songs on Apr 2nd, 2008 9 Comments »
A recent poll was taken among students from London music schools. They were asked to choose the greatest guitar riffs of all time. They came up with a list of mostly classic rock riffs. Of the top 25, only 7 were written in the last 20 years and there wasn’t a single riff written since [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Songs on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Every month, Musicnotes offers one song as a free download from their catalog of nearly 70,000 sheet music titles. This months free download is the Mexican folk song ‘La Cucaracha‘. The song includes the interactive Guitar Guru lesson plus printable guitar tab and MIDI version of the song, available through the month of January. La [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Songs on Dec 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
For the fourth year in a row, MJS Publications is offering free guitar tablature and audio downloads from the Christmas Guitar and Vocal Coral book absolutely free on their web site. The site has thirteen Holiday favorites, including ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas‘, ‘Joy To The World‘, and ‘Silent Night‘. The songs can be [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players, Songs, Videos on Dec 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Goh Nakamura is a very talented song writer and guitar player from the San Francisco Bay Area. You may have seen the video to his song Embarcadero Blues on YouTube, where it’s been very popular. He describes the song as “a love song for San Francisco and anyone who works in the service industry”. Goh [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Songs, Videos on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Elmore Music is offering another free video guitar lesson. Last week, they offered a free video lesson for the song ‘Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)‘ by Green Day. Now you can get step-by-step tabs, individual audio clips and video files for the song ‘Tears in Heaven‘ by Eric Clapton, as well as other free [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Guitar Players, Songs, Videos on Nov 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Edgar Cruz is a classical solo guitar player and National Guitar Fingerpicking Champion who has 10 solo CD’s, and a very popular, award-winning instructional DVD called ‘Arranging for Solo Guitar: The Queen Titles’. In this DVD, Edgar shows how he plays hit songs by Queen on classical guitar, including his popular version of Bohemian Rhapsody. [...]
Posted in Songs on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Software, Songs on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Every month, Musicnotes offers one song as a free download from their catalog of nearly 70,000 sheet music titles. This months free download is Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’, which begins and ends with the memorable funeral theme. Very fitting for Halloween apparently. The sheet music is downloaded as a file and includes 3 pages of printable [...]